Friday, August 15, 2008

ferretsploitation

noun. A film genre that will soothe the soul and quiet the mind. If your mind is a cuckoo-bananas terrorscape, that is...

Real citation: "So on to the next installment of ferretsploitation. You may want to read the previous post, at least, to catch up. Just a suggestion : )The young female ferret must have smelled the prairie dog in the box under her cage even before the tube was made accessible. Not too difficult, as prairie dogs are, shall we say, aromatic. Ferrets, being mustelids, are no slouches in the stinky department either, and surely the prairie dog was aware of the ferret."(Jan. 16, 2008, Queen of the Frozen North, http://cathypegau.blogspot.com/2008/01/cute-little-creatures-with-big-nasty_16.html)

Made-up citation: "I had quite a career in the ferretsploitation industry before I joined the Mounties. And do you know what job I applied for today? Administrative assistant to the vice-exorcist. Since I have shiny exorcism tongs and unflappable interview skills, I'm optimistic."

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Mark Peters (better known as wordlust on Twitter) is a euphemism-collector for Visual Thesaurusand a blogger for Oxford University Press. Formerly, this blog was a collection of rare, raw, real words. Now it's the forever home for orphaned humor pieces and encore tweets.